How to Make a Collage : Composition & Collage Design

Bibliography

How do you make a bibliography.

Firstly we need to know why we use a bibliography. You all know about copyright, right? Now copyright prevents the spread of free information and gives rights to artists, mucisians and researches so that they get recognised and payed for their work. As students and learners we have a right to use their information, but we need to give recognition for their work. It also means that we cannot take the information word for word and we need to make it our own.

Example from wikipedia:
Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war. They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos irrationality. For example, George Grosz later recalled that his Dadaist art was intended as a protest "against this world of mutual destruction."
According to wikipedia this was referenced from Schneede, Uwe M. (1979), George Grosz, His life and work, Universe Books. The italics indicate the name of the book.

This is how I am going to make this my own work:

According to Schneede many Dadaist that the middleclass ideals was what led people into war. They rejected this middleclass ideology  in an artistic expression that rejects logic and seems chaotic.(Schneede, U.M. 1979)

at the end I will reference it like this (Schneede, U.M. 1979) and in my bibliography I will ad my reference:

 1. Schneede U. M. 1979. George Grosz, His life and work, Universe Books

easy... now if you found a web page you would look for the writer, time updated, name of page, where you can find it and when you accsessed it:


Antonites, E. 2010. How to make a bibliography. [ONLINE:]http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4134207997722678616 [ACCSESSED ON:] 28 September 2010

After your project you should have a seperate page that has all your references.

here is a whole webpage on making a bibliography:

http://www.writingcentre.uct.ac.za/improve/referencing/Quick%20guide%20to%20Harvard%20System.pdf


Good luck!

Research

Project Question:

What is daDa and what did their art stand for? What were the Political, Economical and Social influences that started the movement. Name two artists and name what mediums they used? Name any contemporary South African issues that could be relevant to Dadaism. The last question is relevant to your collage creation

This research must be done in pairs and must not be more than two pages
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Collage?

A collage is a technique of composing work of art by pasting on one surface numerous materials not usually associated with each other. Making a collage is fun, easy, and creative! You are going to make a collage to representing South Africa as a Wasteland. What kind of things are contemporary to the country? What are the economical, social and political status of the country? Be creative!
This is what you need to do:

1. Collect materials for your collage, and find inspiration in them.
   
   • Traditional collage materials include scraps of paper and other flat materials: newspaper and magazine clippings, shopping bags, photographs (or photocopies of photographs), wallpaper, and foil.
   • Objects such as string, beads, feathers, and fabric.
   • Collage may encompass images, text, solid colors, or a mixture of these. You may want a recognizable image or word, or simply a suggestion, feel, color, or texture.
   • Use what you have. Start from available materials and work out from there.
   • Create what you don't have. Since collage is an assemblage or blend of elements, it lends itself well to mixed media. You could paint, draw, stamp, or stencil in between the elements you find, or cover over them.
   • Don't rule out unusual materials, like sandpaper, blurry photographs, etc.
   
   
2. Choose a base for your collage. The base is usually flat paper or poster board because these are easiest to work with.
   
   • The background does not have to be white, and it does not have to be plain. The background could be a page from a magazine or book, a large photograph, or a page of text. Paint or draw on it, or cover over it with anything that glue will stick to.
   
   
3. Prepare the base by cutting the base to the desired size and shape. Add any decorations or embellishments you want to the background.
4. Use scissors. to cut out pieces for your collage. Try cutting your scraps into unusual shapes, cutting out words or letters from a variety of sources to make phrases on your collage.
   
   • Cut out a whole picture, an identifiable part, or just enough to evoke texture, colour or feeling.
   • Cut different shapes for both words and images.
5. Try tearing materials too. The rough, random edges give parts of your collage a different character than cutouts.
6.  Arrange the items on your background.
   
   • Play with the different elements and don't be afraid to make this part a messy process. Serendipity may hand you something interesting that you hadn't thought of.
   
   
7. Apply glue to each item.
   
   • You don’t have to cover the whole surface if you don’t want to, and not every piece has to be glued flat on the collage. You can fold or crumple pieces of paper, for example, to get interesting textures.
   
   
8. Let the finished collage dry completely. Depending on the glue(s) you used, you may need to let the collage dry for a few hours or more than a day.

WHAT IS DADA?

Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. The movement was, among other things, a protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society; its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art. It influenced later movements including Surrealism.